Strong's Hebrew · H1391
גִּבְעוֹן
Gibʻôwn · ghib-ohn'
Gibeon.
Definition
Gibon, a place in Palestine
Derivation
from the same as H1387 (גֶּבַע); hilly;
Appears 37 times in Scripture
“So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.”
““Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.””
“And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.”
“So David did as God had commanded him, and they struck down the army of the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.”
“Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.””
“they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon.”
“So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.”
“So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.”
“But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,”
“Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).